Improvement and Application for Environmental Conservation Value Assessment Map(ECVAM) of Nationwide Land in Korea

Lee, Moung-Jin,Jeon, Seong-Woo,Jo, Min-Jeong,Song, Won-Kyong,Kang, Byung-Jin The Korean Society of Remote Sensing 2007 大韓遠隔探査學會誌 Vol.23 No.5

This study is aiming at improving the Environmental Conservation Value Assessment Map(ECVAM) of National Land in Korea. The ECVAM items are composed of legal and environmental/ecological assessments. A popular method applied to ECVAM is an overlay environmental/ecological assessment items. The purpose of this study is to offer complementary items of the ECVAM by examining assessment items. In this study we assessed the ECVAM by five methods. Method 1 is Grade 1 areas of each administrative district; Method 2 is comparing overlapped areas of each assessment items Grade 1, 2 and permission of each assessment items duplication; Method 3 is Grade 1, 2 areas by only singular assessment items; Method 4 is Grade 1 areas only of Method 2; and Method 5 is Grade 2 areas only of Method 2. Method 1 showed Seoul and other metropolitan cities revealed a large proportion of Grade I regions by the legal assessment items. Gang won-Do, showed a large proportion of Grade I regions by the environmental/ecological assessment item. Method 2 showed 93.4% of diameter Grade II(standard for stability); forest diameter item accounted for 99.9% by Method 3, Method 4 showed 95.7% of forest diameter, and forest density accounted for 66.4% by Method 5. This study contributes to reduce the complexity in the process of manufacturing ECVAM of National Land, and to raise the flexibility in the process of managing and updating this map.

Differential Effects of Pioglitazone in the Hippocampal CA1 Region Following Transient Forebrain Ischemia in Low- and High-Fat Diet-Fed Gerbils.

Moon, Seung Myung,Choi, Goang-Min,Yoo, Dae Young,Jung, Hyo Young,Yim, Hee Sun,Kim, Dae Won,Hwang, In Koo,Cho, Byung Moon,Chang, In Bok,Cho, Sung-Min,Won, Moo-Ho Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 2015 Neurochem Res Vol.40 No.5

<P>In the present study, we investigated the effects of pioglitazone (PGZ) in the hippocampal CA1 region of low- or high-fat diet (LFD or HFD) fed gerbils after transient forebrain ischemia. After 8 weeks of LFD or HFD feeding, PGZ (30 mg/kg) was intraperitoneally administered to the gerbils, following which ischemia was induced by occlusion of the bilateral common carotid arteries for 5 min. Administration of PGZ significantly reduced the ischemia-induced hyperactivity 1 day after ischemia/reperfusion in both LFD- and HFD-fed gerbils. At 4 days after ischemia/reperfusion, the neurons were significantly reduced and microglial activation was observed in the hippocampal CA1 region in LFD- and HFD-fed gerbils. The microglial activation was more prominent in the HFD-fed gerbils compared to the LFD-fed gerbils. Administration of PGZ ameliorated ischemia-induced neuronal death and microglial activation in the hippocampal CA1 region 4 days after ischemia/reperfusion in the LFD-fed gerbils, but not in the HFD-gerbils. At 6 h after ischemia/reperfusion, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interlukin-1β (IL-1β) levels were significantly increased in the hippocampal homogenates of LFD-fed group compared to control group, and HFD feeding further increased TNF-α and IL-1β levels. PGZ treatment significantly ameliorated the increase of TNF-α and IL-1β levels in LFD-fed gerbils, not in the HFD-fed gerbils. At 12 h after ischemia/reperfusion, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels in hippocampal homogenates were significantly increased in the LFD-fed group compared to the control group, and HFD feeding significantly showed relatively reduction in SOD activity and increase in MDA level. PGZ administration significantly reduced the increase in MDA levels 12 h after ischemia/reperfusion in the LFD-fed gerbils, but not in the HFD-fed gerbils. These results suggest that PGZ ameliorates the neuronal damage induced by ischemia by maintaining the TNF-α, IL-1β, SOD and MDA levels in LFD-fed gerbils. In addition, HFD feeding affects the modulation of these parameters in the hippocampus after transient forebrain ischemia.</P>

온도 유지시간 제어를 적용한 하이브리드 분말 압출 공정을 통한 요구 특성의 스퍼기어 제조

이경훈(Kyung Hun Lee),황대원(Dae Won Hwang),김병민(Byung Min Kim) 대한기계학회 2011 大韓機械學會論文集A Vol.35 No.8

본 연구는 압출 시 성형온도를 유지하여 Zn-22Al 합금분말의 성형성을 향상시키는 하이브리드 분말 압출 공정의 개발 및 온도 유지시간이 압출된 스퍼기어의 기계적 특성에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위해 수행되었다. 피치원 지름 1.8mm 의 소형 스퍼기어는 압출온도 290, 300, 310℃에서 성형되었다. 볼밀시간 32h 의 Zn-22Al 합금분말을 압출온도 310℃에서 압출 시 표면 결함이 없는 소형 기어가 제조되었다. 경도분포는 기어 중심부와 치형부에서 불균일하였고 소결공정 후 내부 변형에너지의 차이로 인해 내부균열이 발생하였다. 위와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 온도 유지시간 제어를 이용한 하이브리드 압출 연구를 수행하였다. 압출된 스퍼기어의 평가는 압출하중, 비커스 경도 및 치수정밀도 측정을 통해 이루어졌다. 온도 유지시간 15min 에서 압출된 스퍼기어의 기계적 성질이 가장 우수하였다. In this study, a hybrid powder-extrusion process involving the control of temperature dwelling time for improving the formability of Zn-22Al powder was developed and the effect of dwelling time on the mechanical properties of a spur gear with a pitch circle having a diameter of 1.8 mm was investigated. General extrusion experiments were carried out at different temperatures such as 290, 300, and 310°C. Spur gears with good qualities and without any surface defects were obtained in the case of extrusion temperature of 310°C and ball-milling duration of 32 h. The Vickers hardness distribution was non-uniform, and after the sintering process, an internal crack was generated because of the different deformation energy between gear central part and teeth. To overcome the abovementioned problems, research on controlling the dwelling time of the extrusion temperature in the powder-extrusion process was carried out. Good-quality spur gears were obtained when the dwelling time was 15 min.

The effects of secondary task on the control of vehicle under driving simulator: a study among 50s taxi drivers

Han Soo Kim,Jin Seung Choi,Dong Won Kang,Hong Won Yeon,Mi Hyun Choi,Doo Hwan Ji,Byung Chan Min,Soon Cheol Chung,Gye Rae Tack 대한인간공학회 2011 대한인간공학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2011 No.5

Objective: The aim of this study is to quantitatively evaluate the effects of the secondary task during simulated driving using the variable indicating control of vehicle. Background: There are so many researches for simulated driving and performance. For instance, some researches show that the effects of cell phone conversations on simulated driving. Cell phone conversations impaired explicit recognition memory. Method: Participants included 50s taxi drivers; 15 males and 15 females. All subjects were instructed to keep a distance (30m) from the car ahead and a constant speed (80km/hr or 100km/hr). Sending text message (STM) and Searching navigation (SN) were selected as the secondary task. Experiment consisted of rest for 3min., driving alone for 1min. and driving with secondary task for 1 min.. We were analyzed anterior-posterior coefficient of variation (APCV) and medial-lateral coefficient of variation (MLCV). Results: APCV was increased by 175.4% in STM and 223.8% in SN at 80km/hr. MLCV was increased by 242.3% in STM and 323.4% in SN at 100km/hr. There was no significant difference between genders. Conclusion: Consequently, performing secondary task during driving impaired the control of vehicle.

Improvement and Application for Environmental Conservation Value Assessment Map (ECVAM) of Nationwide Land in Korea

Moung Jin Lee,Seong Woo Jeon,Min Jeong Jo,Won Kyong Song,Byung Jin Kang 大韓遠隔探査學會 2007 大韓遠隔探査學會誌 Vol.23 No.5

This study is aiming at improving the Environmental Conservation Value Assessment Map (ECVAM) of National Land in Korea. The ECVAM items are composed of legal and environmental/ecological assessments. A popular method applied to ECVAM is an overlay environmental/ecological assessment items. The purpose of this study is to offer complementary items of the ECVAM by examining assessment items. In this study we assessed the ECVAM by five methods. Method 1 is Grade 1 areas of each administrative district; Method 2 is comparing overlapped areas of each assessment items Grade 1, 2 and permission of each assessment items duplication; Method 3 is Grade 1, 2 areas by only singular assessment items; Method 4 is Grade 1 areas only of Method 2; and Method 5 is Grade 2 areas only of Method 2. Method 1 showed Seoul and other metropolitan cities revealed a large proportion of Grade I regions by the legal assessment items. Gang won-Do, showed a large proportion of Grade I regions by the environmental/ecological assessment item. Method 2 showed 93.4 % of diameter Grade II (standard for stability); forest diameter item accounted for 99.9 % by Method 3, Method 4 showed 95.7 % of forest diameter, and forest density accounted for 66.4 % by Method 5. This study contributes to reduce the complexity in the process of manufacturing ECVAM of National Land, and to raise the flexibility in the process of managing and updating this map.

재사용이 가능한 나노복합재료 Fe₃O₄-ACCS-Ag의 제조 및 항균 특성 평가

심재홍,김해원,김진원,서영석,오세강,조민,박정희,오병택,Shim, Jaehong,Kim, Hea-Won,Kim, Jin-Won,Seo, Young-Seok,Oh, Sae-Gang,Cho, Min,Park, Junghee,Oh, Byung-Taek 한국지하수토양환경학회 2015 지하수토양환경 Vol.20 No.3

In this study, Fe₃O₄-ACCS-Ag nanoparticles (NPs) were successfully synthesized using silica extracted from corn cob ash. The synthesized Fe₃O₄-ACCS-Ag NPs were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopyenergy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). In addition, the potential application of Fe₃O₄-ACCS-Ag NPs as an antibacterial material in water disinfection was investigated using Escherichia coli ATCC 8739 as model bacteria. The antibacterial activity of synthesized composite material showed 99.9% antibacterial effect within 20 min for the tested bacteria. From this experiment, the synthesized Fe₃O₄-ACCS-Ag nanocomposites also hold magnetic properties and could be easily recovered from the water solution for its reuse. The reused nanocomposites presented the decreasing antibacterial efficiencies with the reuse cycle but the composite used three times still killed 90% of bacteria in 20 min.

In Vitro Development of Mouse Parthenogenetic Embryos: Effect of Temperature before Oocyte Activation

Roh Sangho,Won Cheolhee,Min Byung-Moo 한국동물생명공학회(구 한국동물번식학회) 2005 Reproductive & Developmental Biology(Supplement) Vol.29 No.2s

This study was conducted to establish the optimal temperature condition before oocyte activation in B6D2 F1 mouse. In experiment 1, two embryo culture media (CZB vs KSOM) were evaluated for the development of activated mouse oocytes. Parthenogenetic embryos cultured in KSOM showed better blastocyst development than ones cultured in CZB(56.2% vs 81.0%, p<0.01). Two-hour of pre-incubation before activation significantly reduced the number of hatched blastocysts in KSOM (22.0% versus 8.8%, p<0.05). In experiment 2, recovered oocytes were pre-incubated at different temperature conditions before activation. The experimental groups were divided by 5 as follows. Group A: pre-incubation for 120 min at 37℃, Group B: pre-incubation at 37℃ for 90 min then at 25℃ for 30 min, Group C: pre-incubation at 37℃ for 60 min then at 25℃ for 60 min, Group D: pre-incubation at 37℃ for 30 min then at 25℃ for 90 min, and Group E: pre-incubation at 25℃ for 120 min before activation. Group A (67.6%) and B (66.7%) showed better development to the blastocyst stage than other groups (Group C: 50.0%, Group D: 49.2%, Group E: 33.3%, p<0.05). The present study indicates that the temperature before activation affects the development of B6D2 F1 mouse parthenogenetic oocytes and exposure to room temperature should be limited to 30-min when the oocytes are left in HEPES-buffered medium for micromanipulation.

Daily Collection of Self-Reporting Sleep Disturbance Data via a Smartphone App in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy: A Feasibility Study

Min, Yul Ha,Lee, Jong Won,Shin, Yong-Wook,Jo, Min-Woo,Sohn, Guiyun,Lee, Jae-Ho,Lee, Guna,Jung, Kyung Hae,Sung, Joohon,Ko, Beom Seok,Yu, Jong-Han,Kim, Hee Jeong,Son, Byung Ho,Ahn, Sei Hyun JMIR Publications Inc. 2014 Journal of medical Internet research Vol.16 No.5

<P><B>Background</B></P><P>Improvements in mobile telecommunication technologies have enabled clinicians to collect patient-reported outcome (PRO) data more frequently, but there is as yet limited evidence regarding the frequency with which PRO data can be collected via smartphone applications (apps) in breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.</P><P><B>Objective</B></P><P>The primary objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of an app for sleep disturbance-related data collection from breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. A secondary objective was to identify the variables associated with better compliance in order to identify the optimal subgroups to include in future studies of smartphone-based interventions.</P><P><B>Methods</B></P><P>Between March 2013 and July 2013, patients who planned to receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer at Asan Medical Center who had access to a smartphone app were enrolled just before the start of their chemotherapy and asked to self-report their sleep patterns, anxiety severity, and mood status via a smartphone app on a daily basis during the 90-day study period. Push notifications were sent to participants daily at 9 am and 7 pm. Data regarding the patients’ demographics, interval from enrollment to first self-report, baseline Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI) score, and health-related quality of life score (as assessed using the EuroQol Five Dimensional [EQ5D-3L] questionnaire) were collected to ascertain the factors associated with compliance with the self-reporting process.</P><P><B>Results</B></P><P>A total of 30 participants (mean age 45 years, SD 6; range 35-65 years) were analyzed in this study. In total, 2700 daily push notifications were sent to these 30 participants over the 90-day study period via their smartphones, resulting in the collection of 1215 self-reporting sleep-disturbance data items (overall compliance rate=45.0%, 1215/2700). The median value of individual patient-level reporting rates was 41.1% (range 6.7-95.6%). The longitudinal day-level compliance curve fell to 50.0% at day 34 and reached a nadir of 13.3% at day 90. The cumulative longitudinal compliance curve exhibited a steady decrease by about 50% at day 70 and continued to fall to 45% on day 90. Women without any form of employment exhibited the higher compliance rate. There was no association between any of the other patient characteristics (ie, demographics, and BDI and EQ5D-3L scores) and compliance. The mean individual patient-level reporting rate was higher for the subgroup with a 1-day lag time, defined as starting to self-report on the day immediately after enrollment, than for those with a lag of 2 or more days (51.6%, SD 24.0 and 29.6%, SD 25.3, respectively; <I>P</I>=.03).</P><P><B>Conclusions</B></P><P>The 90-day longitudinal collection of daily self-reporting sleep-disturbance data via a smartphone app was found to be feasible. Further research should focus on how to sustain compliance with this self-reporting for a longer time and select subpopulations with higher rates of compliance for mobile health care.</P>

口蓋部에 發生한 原發性 惡性黑色腫

Byung Il Min(閔丙一),Young Kyun Kim(金榮均),Kyoung Won Kim(金京元) 대한구강악안면외과학회 1988 대한구강악안면외과학회지 Vol.14 No.1

Malignant melanoma in the region of the head and neck is a rare and threating disease. The primary malignant melanoma of the oral cavity represents less than 2 per cent of all malignant melanomas. The oral cavity contained half of the malignant melanomas with palate and alveolus predominating. This is the case report of the primary malignant melanoma on the palate. In the case of 52 old male patient, he was admitted to our department with the chief complaint of black discoloration and ulcerative lesion on the left palatal area. This lesion was treated by subtotal maxillectomy and prophylactic neck dissection. Postoperative biopsy revealed metastatic malignant melanomas in 2 out of 9 lymph nodes. So we thought that prophylactic regional lymph node dissection was significant.

Therapeutic Effects of Growth Factor Cocktail (CellcurinTM) containing FGF5s (fibroblast growth factor 5 short) and NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide) applied on the scalp in the patients with androgenetic alopecia: a split study

( Byung In Ro ),( Jae Won Kang ),( Sung Min Kim ),( Hang Cheol Shin ) 대한피부과학회 2020 대한피부과학회 학술발표대회집 Vol.72 No.1

Background: Growth Factor Cocktail (GFC), which contains growth factors and cytokine, has been gradually gaining attention as a new treatment for hair loss. Several studies reported the effectiveness of GFC on hair regrowth via microneedles; however, studies regarding formulations with fibroblast growth factor 5 short (FGF5s) and nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) have not been conducted. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effect of treatment with microneedle technology by adding FGF5s and NMN to GFC in patients with androgenetic alopecia (AGA). Methods: In this study, AGA patients were treated six times for a total of 3 months at 2-week intervals from the first visit. The scalp was divided into two sections at the time of treatment; the right side was treated with GFC with FGF5s and NMN, and the left were treated with normal saline, with microneedles to a depth of 0.8 mm. A total of 20 patients (11 males and 9 females) were included in the study. Clinical photographs and phototrichogram were performed before and 2 weeks after treatment to determine the final treatment effect. Results: The phototrichogram images of the scalp treated with GFC for 3 months showed increased hair density and diameter. In contrast, there was no change in hair density and diameter in the scalp treated with normal saline. Conclusion: GFC with FGF5s and NMN with microneedling is an effective and safe treatment of androgenetic alopecia. Future studies in controlled clinical settings are warranted.